Dr Carina Ginty is a Head of Teaching and Learning at ATU with responsibility for Education Innovation & Transformation. In February 2025, Carina was awarded a Principal Fellowship with Advance HE (PFHEA).

Carina is the Atlantic Technological University (ATU) lead for N-TUTORR Transforming Learning and the N-TUTORR TU sector co-lead student empowerment. Funded by NextGenerationEU (value 40 million euro), the aim of this ambitious program focuses on transforming teaching, learning and assessment through student empowerment, building staff capabilities and developing the digital ecosystem in technological universities in Ireland.

Working in higher education for 20 years, Carina is a leader in teaching and learning innovation at ATU and has initiated various national and international innovation projects in teaching, learning and assessment enhancement, digital transformation, digital pedagogies, student engagement and leadership.

From 2019-2022 Carina led the development of DigitalEd.ie, a knowledge platform to build digital teaching and learning capabilities across all campuses of the ATU under iNOTE funded by the HEA innovation fund. In ATU, Carina is also co-leading in the HigherEd 4.0 project on the development of a career and learning pathway platform called MyCareerPath.ie, that is transforming access pathways to higher education.

Carina is chair of the Learning, Teaching and Assessment Committee of Academic Council. She is a member of the EU Green Alliance Education Commission and is leading a team tasked with coordinating the professional and pedagogical development programme for 9 EU university partners.

In 2022, Carina was awarded the President’s Award for Outstanding Institutional Citizenship.